Award winning author of Weeping Under This Same Moon, Elephants of the Tsunami, "A Free Woman On God's Earth", and my newest Celtic faerietale, The Twelfth Stone.

Background
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Jana Laiz has been writing for as long as she can remember. She wrote her first novel at age 6. She is the author of the triple Award Winning novel, Weeping Under This Same Moon,Elephants of the Tsunami, written to raise money for tsunami relief, and the co-author of "A Free Woman On God's Earth, The True Story of Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman, The Slave Who Won Her Freedom", The Twelfth Stone, and Thomas & Autumn. Fascinated by other cultures, Jana studied anthropology and Chinese language at University. She is a teacher, a writer, an editor, a photographer, a mom, an animal lover and keeper of pets, a sea glass collector, a jeweler, a musician and a dreamer. She is passionate about our beautiful planet and endeavors to make a difference in the world and to work with others who feel the same. Her novel, The Twelfth Stone, a Celtic American faerie tale, adventure, romance, coming of age, environmental novel for adults and young adults is just out. She lives in a 200-year-old farmhouse in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts.

Birth Place

New York, NY USA

Accomplishments

ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award Gold Medalist
International Reading Association Notable Book

Additional Information

Weeping Under This Same Moon and "A Free Woman On God's Earth" have both been optioned...scripts in process!